NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks

Re:NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks by cs702 on Saturday April 06, 2019 @11:47AM (#19591308)

A natural question I've pondered from time to time is whether Fabrice Bellard is really a time traveler from a more advanced civilization in the future, sent back in time to show us, mere mortals, what humankind will be capable of in the future.

If this sounds far-fetched, consider that he has created FFMPEG, QEMU, LibBF, SoftFP, BPG, TinyEMU, a software implementation of 4G/LTE, a PC emulator in Javascript, the TCC compiler, TinyGL, LZEXE, and a tiny program for computing the biggest known prime number.

And that's just a partial list of his successful projects, which now of course also include software for more efficient lossless compression with deep LSTM and Transformer neural networks.

Any of these projects, on its own, would be considered a notable achievement for an ordinary human being.

Fabrice Bellard deserves some kind of superhuman lifetime achievement award.

Source: https://bellard.org

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Re:NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks by eismcc on Saturday April 06, 2019 @02:47PM (#19592350)

Agree. It’s also a message to the rest of us that we are likely capable of a lot more than we think.

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Re:NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks by makapuf on Saturday April 06, 2019 @05:33PM (#19593131)

Agree. It's also an - involuntary - message to the rest of us that we are likely capable of a lot less than he is.

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Re:NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks by trollied on Saturday April 06, 2019 @05:25PM (#19593093)

I know all of these in isolation. I’d just like to thank you for joining the dots. Wow

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Re:NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks by feedbeef on Saturday April 06, 2019 @09:05PM (#19594101)

> Fabrice Bellard deserves some kind of superhuman lifetime achievement award.

Indeed. The Tesla of software perhaps.

I just launched JSLinux [1] for fun. You gotta love this dmesg line: [ 0.000000] CPU: vendor_id 'AuthenticX86' unknown, using generic init.

[1] https://bellard.org/jslinux/

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